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MYSPACE TUTORIALS, TIPS, CODES, & HELP:
How to Use Images, Pictures, & Graphics in MySpace Profile Pages
ADD IMAGES TO THE BACKGROUND OF YOUR TABLES MYSPACE TUTORIALS - A MySpace tutorial for learning how to add code to your page add a Background Image to all your tables.
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MYSPACE CSS HOVERS, ROLLOVERS, AND SPANS TUTORIAL - I am writing this tutorial to help everyone understand hover codes. We will first cover the basics, then we'll look at image hovers (or image rollovers) and CSS pop-ups.
HOW TO MPD SERVER-SIDE MAP TUTORIAL FOR IMAGE MAPS - OK, so now you understand client side image maps. We are going to go over server side image maps in this tutorial, which you MUST use on MySpace if you want mapping to work.
HOW TO ADD A MYSPACE BACKGROUND WITH CSS TUTORIAL - Getting customized with a Myspace background Customizing a Myspace background is incredibly easy. First, though, it's important to consider what kind of Myspace background you'd like: a large image or a repeating background.
HOW TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR MYSPACE PROFILE BACKGROUND - If you are using a JPG or GIF image background, you can first upload your image file to a free image hosting service such as photobucket.com.
HOW TO CHOOSE A BACKGROUND IMAGE FOR MYSPACE PROFILE TUTORIAL - A good background image should fill your entire page. A good way to test this is by opening the image to its full size and see if it covers your entire screen (or larger!). Find out more on this MySpace Background Image Tutorial.
FRIENDSTER / MYSPACE GLITTER GRAPHICS HELPFILE - To Add Glitter Graphics to Friendster or Myspace, Choose a graphic you like and copy the code in the box underneath the image. (To copy, select the text, right click once and select 'copy'.)
MYSPACE TUTORIAL: POSTING AN IMAGE - So, you’ve found a picture you like and want to share it with your friends on myspace. If it’s on your computer already, great. If it’s from a website, right click it and select “Save picture as” to save it to your computer.
HOW TO GET HOSTING IMAGES FOR MYSPACE PROFILE PAGES - When getting images, you have to first save the image. Right Click The Image on the right click menu, select "Save Image As…" and save it to somewhere on your computer that you will know where it is!
HOW TO CREATE A CLIENT-SIDE SITE MAP MYSPACE PROFILE TUTORIAL
MYSPACE TUTORIAL DESCRIPTION: Client-side maps are great for websites, but not essential for MySpace if you want to use a map, as the hash mark is filtered not allowing the map to work in IE or Safari. However, I like to use client side maps so I can use the alt and title tags. The one that's essential for MySpace is the Server-Side Image Map, which you should read about after understanding the client-side image map if you want your map to work on MySpace.
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR DEFAULT MYSPACE NAME’S COLOR / IMAGE - Change Your Default Name’s Color / Image It has been filtered, No Longer Available…Believe Me, I'm not trying to hold information. People don't read, now it's filtered! Been filtered since 5/15!!!
HOW TO ADD IMAGES TO MYSPACE PROFILE PAGES TUTORIAL - Learn how to find picture and image codes in order to add a picture, a picture link, change dimensions of a picture, picture borders, how to make a picture marquee, and how to pictures in a scrollbox.
HOW TO USE FILTERS TO CREATE IMAGE EFFECTS IN MYSPACE TUTORIAL - How do you change your pictures when you go over them with the cursor?Theres a lot of different filters. besisde fliping it horiz. or vert. you can emboss it, engrave, blurr, glow, shadow, opacity, negative, black and white, theres a bunch. Learn how to do these with MySpace Codes.
HOW TO CREATING IMAGE LINKS MYSPACE TUTORIAL - A MySpace tutorial for learning how to add a link to your graphics and images
HOW TO CHANGE MYSPACE BACKGROUND IMAGE TUTORIAL - Learn how to code/or change the background image in the photo gallery section
A FEW MORE TRICKS TO OPTIMIZE GRAPHICS FOR MYSPACE PROFILE TUTORIAL - Since we now understand the two major factors in reducing file size and load time, which are using 216 web safe colors and saving your graphics as the proper graphical format, we can go into detail on a few other tricks to help your pages load quickly. One method that we use at MySpaceProDesigns.com is using thumbnails. We do this by making our image and saving it as the quality that we would like for you to use, then resizing it and resaving in a quality and size that we can display without too much quality loss.
IMAGE FILTERS FOR COOL IMAGE EFFECTS MYSPACE TUTORIALS - Learn how to use image filters to create cool looking effects for your MySpace profile.
HOW TO ADD FILTERS FOR IMAGE EFFECTS TO YOUR MYSPACE GRAPHCS TUTORIAL - But I would never accuse you of making sound decisions. Here is a MySpace Graphics Filter and Image Effects Tutorial.
HOW TO OPTIMIZE GRAPHICS - JPEG VS GIF - The most common type of graphics files on the web are probably gifs, which stands for Graphics Interchange Format. Gifs are a type of lossless compression, or a compression which no data is lost, and is similar to something like a .zip file. Gifs are limited to 256 colors and are preferable if the image does not have a lot of colors or color gradients or has very fine details.
EASY TO USE MYSPACE CODES, EDITORS AND GENERATORS TUTORIAL - This code will add a background image to the "more pictures" section of your Myspace profile
HOW TO PLACE IMAGE WHERE THE MYSPACE URL IS TUTORIAL - A MySpace Profile tutorial to replace the MySpace URL with an Image of Your Choice.
HOW TO CREATE A PICTURE MYSPACE MARQUEE TUTORIAL - How to create image marquees. Please keep in mind that marquees can and will seriously impare page loading time, but since eveyone wants to do them, here's how you do it
EDITING VIEW MORE PICTURES MYSPACE AREA TUTORIAL - A MySpace tutorial for learning how to add special codes to your image captions in order to edit your "View More Pictures" Section.
With Adobe recently launching their online version of Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Photoshop Express - you might be wondering if there are other quality image editors online. You don't have to wonder anymore. We have put together a list of more than 30 web-based picture editors that are great alternatives to Photoshop Express. I am not saying that any of these online image editing tools are better than Photoshop Express, but they are all quality tools that can be used to create great image effects.
We have set up a script to take the freelance design jobs from dozens of freelance sites, graphic design forums, web design forums, job boards, and graphic design job sites. This script is set to automatically update this job board several times a day so you can be assured that you are looking at regularly updated freelance graphic design and web design projects on this aggregator.
I get questions about fonts all the time and I wanted to write a post that would help many of you. Today I am answering many questions about fonts that will help you in your daily graphic design tasks.
You will find that a lot of these tools can automate your graphic design process by actually doing the tedious repetitive tasks that slow you down. There are a ton of tools listed here, so make sure to bookmark this page.
Logo Design Process of Inspirational Graphic Designer Jon Sandruck Do you want to learn about the logo design process from a logo designer who is going to have two of his logos to be included in the inspirational Logo Lounge 5? Then please welcome the very talented Jon Sandruck. Today Jon Sandruck is going to detail [...]
I have collected more than a dozen of the coolest shopping bags that I have ever seen. The creativity that was put into designing these bags could be put towards any graphic design project, and is not only limited to shopping bag design. These graphic designers thought outside the box (or bag in this situation) and I would love to have you submit some designs that you think showcase the same creative thinking (designing).
If you are a Photoshop guru, then you are probably always on the lookout for new free Photoshop stuff. Well, we try to do that legwork for you. On this page you will find a nice roundup of free Photoshop pattern sites. Click through to these sites and download some of those free patterns. Have fun.
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.
I have collected the top Photoshop Logo Design tutorials online and listed them for you below. There are also plenty of Web 2.0 Logo Design tutorials as well.
This part II of a never-ending series of the coolest outside ads, billboards, and public advertising.
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6 Million Downloadable Clipart Images for Graphic Designers
The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
Sep 1Huge Roundup of Typography Blogs, Resources, Articles, Galleries, & Tools
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.
May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
Mar 7Hot in Graphic Design - A Superb Guide to Designing With Black
A Superb Guide to Designing With Black Many of the people who visit All Graphic Design are Graphic Designers and many of you are Web Designers. If you are a Graphic Designer, than you most likely know that many things can go wrong when sending your files to be printed. For one thing, colors never look [...]
Mar 6Hot in Graphic Design - Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer
Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer Hey, I bet you think you are the best Graphic Designer around, don't you?! Well, if you are brave enough, you should take a look at an article which will hit you where it hurts (if you are doing any of the 13 tell tale [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios
Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios This is a post on Astheria Design Blog that is in response to a previous post called "?My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too"?. This articles includes pictures and links to Design portfolios that were designed with a goal in mind. All of these design portfolios have one thing in [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Some Online Printing Services I?ve Used
Some Online Printing Services I've Used - Personal Commercial Printers Review Whether you are a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer, we all need to use commercial printing services every once in a while. All freelancers, in fact, need to use printing services to print items such as business cards, printing labels, envelopes, letterhead, marketing materials, [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume?
Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume? I have always been told that utilizing design within a resume is the wrong thing to do, Graphic Designer or not. So when I saw this article title, it caught my eye and I had to read more. However, the author of this article doesn't agree with [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - List of 120+ Free Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs
List of 120+ Free Adobe Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs I was excited when I found this huge list of free Adobe Photoshop actions, and I am guessing that you will be excited as well. Actions are the best way to speed up Photoshop tasks that you do on a regular basis, such as change an [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Logo Design Trends for 2008
Logo Design Trends for Graphic Designers in 2008 As a Graphic Designer, you might not think that trends are important when it comes to designing a logo. However, as you can see if you look at design archives, the art of Graphic Design changes. As a designer, you will need to keep on top of these [...]
Website Redesign for Victorian and Gothi
I have a small clothing design business, but my product is in a fairly popular niche market. The thing that most of my customers comment on is the ease of shopping on my site, the simple/attractive fo? Client is in ., NV
Website Redesign for Real Estate Resourc
Hi all, My website needs facelifting. This is a real estate resource similar to Trulia. The purpose of redesign is to give our site the modern look and keep it up to the "international web design st? Client is in Kyiv,
Package Design for Warehouse Club Produc
We prefer to work with local Tucson, AZ resource. My Industry: Stationery Review of current package design for Warehouse Club Stationery set. Recommend and prepare design improvements. ? Client is in Tucson, AZ
Website Redesign for Vehicle Performance
Local to Houston area, please. I am look for a designer to work with to refresh and update the company website. The site is about 20 pages currently, will probably need to add more. I don't have any ? Client is in Houston, TX
Website Redesign for a Financial Service
Number of pages (approx): 5-6 pages My Industry: Financial Services We currently have somewhat of a site listed at the URL provided. However, before we advertise, we would like a more professional s? Client is in Mcdonough, GA
Redesign website and logo for Party Serv
Number of pages (approx): 6? My Industry: childrens entertainment The site is 3 years old. It was a cheap and cheerful site that served as a simple presence to highlight the birthday parties. Sin? Client is in Dublin 15,
Web Design: Residential Remodeling
I have pictures and would like a web page that customers can go to so they can view our work. Also would like information about our company and references etc. Once the web page is completed I can upd? Client is in Hayward, CA
Motion Designer After Effects Expert Nee
Hi I`m looking for an After Effects / Flash expert to give me three different quotes. Quote 1 I already have this After Effects Project, and I can send to you. But how much just to customize this p? Client is in Washington, DC
One Page Web Design for Entertainment
Number of pages (approx): 1 basic layout with reusable content for websites / possibly a logo My Industry: Entertainment I need a one page website design that can be reused for myspace as well. No f? Client is in Poplar Bluff, MO